All Films

Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania

1999 • 56 min • United States of America

Hosted by everyone's favorite vamp, Elvira, this program is a lighthearted look back at the monster movies of the '50s. All the monsters that scared your parents make appearances here including Godzilla and King Kong. Also included are many interviews with the men behind the monsters including special effects wizards and directors. A special look at the monsters of Japan and Great Britain are included as well.

It’s Lulu

1999 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Lulu is one of the most well-known Scottish singers thanks to her iconic hits including the 1964 hit cover of The Isley Brothers' song 'Shout'. After her success with 'Shout', Lulu went on to win the joint first place title on the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 with the track 'Boom Bang-A-Bang'. In 1993, Lulu appeared on Take That's iconic track 'Relight My Fire' which gave Lulu her first and only number one on the official UK music chart. Lulu was awarded an OBE in 2000 by the Queen for her services to music and it was upgraded to a CBE in 2021. Lulu was born as Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, on Nov. 3, 1948, in Lennoxtown near Glasgow in Scotland.

Eclipse

1999 • 8 min • France

Filmed during the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, Eclipse observes adults and children across France watching the darkened sky through protective glasses. Marker captures their varied reactions—wonder, curiosity, and indifference—as day briefly turns to night.

Tina Goes Shopping

1999 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The first film in the Tina trilogy, using the actual inhabitants of a tough Leeds council estate in the leading roles. Tina is a single mum who steals to order for her own `shopping' business, her drug-addict boyfriend Aaron is planning the theft of a cow so he can sell the meat, and Tina's father, Don, is the mobster in control of the local drugs trade.

Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box

1999 • 50 min • United States of America

The story of how two boys from war-torn Germany turned their never-ending dreams into reality. The story is recounted within the virtual realms of the magic box, a surreal environment where past and present converge into 3D storybook reflections on their life's journey.

Outer Space

1999 • 11 min • Austria

A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the film itself as it starts to cause the world to collapse.

Dizzy

1999 • 19 min

The earth spins at 1000 miles per hour on a journey around the sun every 365 days, it's only natural that we feel dizzy from time to time. On a trip halfway round the world the Michigan born narrator recalls episodes from his past including his childhood car trips in Canada and his one-time boyfriend in Berlin.

La Puce

1999 • 42 min • France

Marion is a 14-year-old girl who is on holiday with her family by the sea in Normandy. But she soon comes into conflict with her mother and siblings. There she also meets a man named Marc, to whom she feels attracted, who sees her and desires her. Back in Paris, she visits him again. For the first time in her life, she will make love to him.

How to Haunt a House

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

In order to demonstrate how to haunt a house, the narrator arranges for Goofy to temporarily be "not living" and selects Donald Duck to be the one whom Goofy's ghost will haunt.

En lek på blodigt allvar

1999 • 59 min • Sweden

Göran Gentele (1917 - 1972) was a Swedish actor, director, and opera manager. He studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1944-46, followed by acting and directing theatre and film, became artistic director of the Swedish Royal Opera in 1963 and of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1972.

Alien Adventure

1999 • 37 min

The movie begins with an extraterrestrial humanoid species, the Glegoliths, wandering through space in search of a new world. Encountering an unknown planet (which turns out to be Earth), the Glegolith leader (Cyrillus) sends two "manned" probes to the surface to determine if it is suitable for colonisation. The scouts in the probes think they have arrived at a great city, but in fact they have arrived at a new amusement park that is not yet open to the public. They proceed to explore four amusement rides.

The Mythology of Star Wars

1999 • 57 min • United States of America

George Lucas discusses how Joseph Campbell and his concept of the Monomyth (aka the Hero's Journey) and other concepts from mythology and religion shaped the Star Wars saga.

Deadly Seduction

1999 • 53 min

Summer vacation is coming, Xinxin (played by Chen Shulan) returns to Hong Kong from the United States for vacation to reunite with her parents. Her parents had a dispute because of an invitation from her neighbor and friend Anita Mui (played by Huang Yishan) to attend a nostalgic dance.

The Sonny Bono Story

1999 • 45 min • United States of America

Sonny Bono ranked as one of pop-rock's most visible and famous musician/producers of the mid- to late '60s; and in the '70s, he was one of the very few successful musical-variety personalities on American television. His work and career straddled the eras of Brill Building pop, the British Invasion, and folk-rock, right through to 1970s pop. His talent and keen sense of where popular culture was heading sent him and his partner and wife Cher into the birth of the counterculture and through to a post-rock career in Las Vegas and onto television and politics.

A Letter from the Western Front

1999 • 9 min

In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee. He writes that her picture "helps me remember what it was like to be me." He tells her about sorties into No Man's Land, and that they have orders tonight to charge. Then, his letter becomes a report of that charge: toward an armed German soldier who doesn't fire, even when John reaches him and jumps into the trench beside him. What happens next brings silence and an end to the letter.

First Love and Other Pains

1999 • 50 min

Across the boundaries they find each other... in this post-colonial romance. A cynical English professor discovers love in the form of an admiring student. But is it too late for him to find happiness?

Stop Breakin' Down

1999 • 25 min

Short film exploring, blues legend, Robert Johnson and how he came to be so skilled on the guitar. It looks at how he learnt the blues so quickly, and how it's believed that Johnson sold his sold to Satan down at the crossroads.

Life

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

In life, the big fish eats the little fish, and the bigger fish eats the big fish. To illustrate this basic truth, thirty-three animators each introduce a character who eats the one previously introduced and is eaten by the next animator's creation. It happens on land and at sea, with humans, animals real and imaginary, aliens, a few plants, and a robot. They are chomped whole, sliced, smashed, flattened, inhaled through straws, eaten from the inside out and the backside forward. Sometimes the little guy wins; nothing and no one is invincible. By the end, we've come full circle.

Jazzimation

1999 • 5 min • Netherlands

A jazzy film in which the spectator is forced to look with the ears and listen with the eyes. An abstract film drawn directly on the computer.

Chuck Webber's Land of Abusement

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

A 35mm cut-out animated infomercial for the world's most dangerous theme park.

Hollow

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

A pumpkin-headed surgeon brings to life a new version of himself and hands over his scalpel to his replacement.

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video: Best Selection 2

1999 • 54 min • Japan

A best selection of the "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" franchise that takes footage from part 2, 6, 4, Special 1 and a new unreleased video.

Canada 3-D

1999 • 1 min • Canada

Canada 3-D is a 60 second video, 3-D whirlwind tour of what it means to be Canadian, through the lens of director and animator, George Geertsen. Apparently it means a lot--everything from early explorers to one room schoolhouses, the Depression, the World Wars, the Baby Boom, EXPO 67, sports highlights and the one experience that every single Canadian shares: winter! A film without words.

Gioconda/Film

1999 • 1 min

Theoretical experiment that uses the technique of picto-cinematography, win which “the search for the temporal objective duration of painting” stands out; this comes to us via its real measurements on a 35mm film. This technique allows us to get “a new vision of a pictorial work” within a temporal duration defined by cinematographic means. In this experiment, the same image of the painting remains in emulsion on the optical soundtrack, thus generating a sound. — AP